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Bride ales and penny weddings : Recreations, reciprocity, and regions in Britain from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century / R.A. Houston.

By: Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014Edition: First editionDescription: xviii, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780199680870
  • 0199680876
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 392.50941 HOU 23
LOC classification:
  • GT2743 .H68 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
Part I. Ales and bridals : public and private sociabilities -- Communal drinkings in England and Wales, c. 1400-1600 -- Religious change and the demise of English church ales -- Public and private festivities : the geography of church and other ales -- Part II. Wedding celebrations in early modern Britain -- Weddings in south-east England -- Recreations, religion, and bridals in post-Reformation Scotland -- Who held contributory weddings and why? -- The costs and benefits of bridals -- Country, town, and the commercial element in hospitality -- The social universe of contributory weddings -- Numbers -- Pat III. Coercion and the limits of voluntarism -- Lovedargs, boon days, and boon works -- Thigging -- Cymorthau -- Part IV. Contexts and comparisons -- Contemporary explanations of cultural change -- Regional social and economic contexts -- Cultural patterns and the "Celtic fringe" -- Cultural patterns and continental parallels -- The decline of reciprocity.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-232) and index.

Part I. Ales and bridals : public and private sociabilities -- Communal drinkings in England and Wales, c. 1400-1600 -- Religious change and the demise of English church ales -- Public and private festivities : the geography of church and other ales -- Part II. Wedding celebrations in early modern Britain -- Weddings in south-east England -- Recreations, religion, and bridals in post-Reformation Scotland -- Who held contributory weddings and why? -- The costs and benefits of bridals -- Country, town, and the commercial element in hospitality -- The social universe of contributory weddings -- Numbers -- Pat III. Coercion and the limits of voluntarism -- Lovedargs, boon days, and boon works -- Thigging -- Cymorthau -- Part IV. Contexts and comparisons -- Contemporary explanations of cultural change -- Regional social and economic contexts -- Cultural patterns and the "Celtic fringe" -- Cultural patterns and continental parallels -- The decline of reciprocity.